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An agricultural aircraft is an aircraft that has been built or converted for agricultural use – usually aerial application of pesticides (crop dusting) or fertilizer (aerial topdressing); in these roles, they are referred to as "crop dusters" or "top dressers".
The IMCO CallAir A-9 is an agricultural aircraft that first flew in 1962, a development of the company's previous successful crop-dusters. It is typical of aircraft of its type - a single-seat aircraft with a low wing incorporating spraying gear.
Huff-Daland was an American aircraft manufacturer.Formed as Ogdensburg Aeroway Corp in 1920 in Ogdensburg, New York by Thomas Huff and Elliot Daland, its name was quickly changed to Huff-Daland Aero Corp and then in 1925 it was changed again to Huff-Daland Aero Company with its main headquarters in Bristol, Pennsylvania.
Two months ago, the 62-year-old man told a sheriff’s office investigator he had flipped off a different pilot while holding a firearm because he thought they were flying too low.
The plane crashed in a bean field between Benton County Roads 700 and 800 South and 100 and 200 East, Rosenberger said. The crash site is southwest of Oxford and southeast of Boswell.
Two crop dusting airplanes collided near an airport in southern Idaho on Thursday and crashed to the ground, killing one of the pilots and leaving the other with life-threatening injuries ...
Specialist crop dusters such as the Schweizer Agcat emerged in America in the mid-1950s, designed for the flat mid-west. These generally had poorer forward vision and lesser payload to weight ratios than the Fletcher, which continued to dominate the New Zealand market—however, in places where aircraft primarily were used to drop insecticide ...
Sep. 13—GRAND FORKS COUNTY — The fatal agricultural aircraft crash in northern Grand Forks County on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 12, is the ninth crop-dusting fatality in the United States this year.